Should Social Media Activity Cost You Your Job?

Introduction

Victor J. Blue for The New York Times

What happens on Twitter stays on Twitter … for all the world to see. The New York Fire Department learned that when one of its E.M.T.’s, the commissioner’s son, posted a string of offensive remarks. The technology industry got a reminder recently as well: After a woman posted a photo of two men whose jokes at a conference had bothered her, one of them was fired, and so was she.